Barbed fence



(Model.)

BARBBD FENCE.

Patented N0v.15,1881.

Mirar/@W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL HEPP, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BARBED FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,522, dated November 15, 1881.

Application tiled September B, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, DANIELHEPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ot' Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbed Fences and I do hereby de clare that the following is afull, clear, and eX- act description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l ofthe drawings is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2.is a detail View ofthe barb, and Fig. 3 a view of one ot' the wire strands bent to form a double loop or eye forthe reception ofthe ends ot the barb.

The present invention has relation to that class of barbed fences composed of two wire strands twisted around and upon each other, one of which is bent to form -a single eye or loop for connecting thereto a wire barb.

The object of the present invention is to so bend one of the wire strands as to form a double eye or loop, Vand connecting thereto a wire barb 1n such manner that a substantial and stronger fence-wire is obtained with increased in position on the strands.

durability, the barbs being heldmoresecurel y These objects I attain by the construction-substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, A` B represent the two strands composing the fencewire, which are twisted around and upon each other throughout their entire length. The wire strand A, at intervals, is twisted in the form shown in Fig. 3, so'as to form two indelpendent and separate eyes or loops, a b.

The barb C, previous to its being connected to the fence-wire, is in the form of a staple and after its ends have been passed through the eyes or loops a b they are bent or spread laterallyr to the plane of the strands, as shown in Fig. 2.

The double loop or eye forms a very secure means of attaching the barb C, and the strand B, which bears between the ends of the barb, assists in holding the same in place.

Athe wire strand are at right angles` thereto.

The double loop admits the ends of the staple forming the bar passing through the holes, the shanks ofthe staplebeing afterward spread laterally to the plane ot' the wire strand. By the peculiar formation of the double loop, after the barb is inserted and the wireA drawn taut, the barb will present the appearance shown in Fig. 2. The compression produced at the point X will prevent any' downward movement of the barb, andthe wire strand appronchin g the base ot' the eye formed by the compression of the barb will prevent any upward movement of said barb. The construction ofthe double loop in place of the lsingle loop heretofore in use perfectly clamps and secures the barb in place without the necessity of twisting the wire barb around the strand, or the employment ot' two separate barbs twisted together after passing them through the eye ofthe single loop in order to retain them in their relative position, as is common. I therefore desire it to be understood that I lay no claim to a barb fence-wire the main strand of which is twisted to form a single loop or eye for connecting thereto the barb, such construc tion being admitted as old and in common use;

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a barbed fence-wire, the strand A, bent at intervals, as shown and described, .to form eyes or loops a b, in combination withV the strand B and barb C, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence ot two witnesses.

DANIEL HEPP.

Witnesses:

' J oHN MARTHA,

ERNEsT LANG. 

